The latest round of Brady/Manning was a win for CBS Sports, as Sunday’s coverage of the AFC Championship game scored the highest rating for the AFC Championship game on any network in 30 years and was the second most-watched AFC Championship game on any network in 39 years. The matchup generated 53.3 million viewers, according […]
FOX Sports is revving up for the 58th running of the Daytona 500 on Feb. 21 with a rolling marketing campaign targeting the social aspect of celebrating the race with family and friends. The campaign features a “Happy Daytona Day” anthem that premiered on Sunday, while an LA “Police Chase” spot featuring company rookie Jeff […]
Exits: Robert and Michelle King, creators, exec producers and showrunners for CBS’ The Good Wife, are leaving the show after the current seventh season. Additionally, contracts of many original cast members, including Julianna Margulies, are up at the end of this season. Exec producer Craig Turk is being eyed to take over as showrunner….After six […]
Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men) will direct the first two episodes of History’s upcoming drama Six, about a brotherhood of Navy SEAL Team Six warriors whose 2014 mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists.
As Relativity Media works to pull out of its six-month-long bankruptcy under a new reorganization plan, some companies have asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to block the studio’s reorg, arguing that the company is incapable of fulfilling various contractual obligations under the plan. Foremost among these companies is Netflix, which has requested that the […]
Google’s jobs board is giving the game away – and apparently the company’s virtual reality ambitions don’t end at the Cardboard. Several new jobs postings, first discovered by RoadtoVR, hint that the company may be developing its own VR gear. The postings: – Hardware Engineering Technical Lead Manager, VR – Engineering Project Specialist, Virtual Reality […]
Less than two weeks out from Super Bowl 50, its host committee is asking fans to “Play Your Part,” an initiative designed to serve up a Net Positive celebration that activates fans to help the environment. Launched in collaboration with in/PACT and Citizen Group, the campaign will focus on reducing impact on climate change by […]
Bud Light made its Super Bowl festivities official, unveiling a new marketing campaign “with a mission to unite modern beer drinkers” that features Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen as the faces of the promotion. The campaign launched with its Super Bowl spot and will continue throughout the year under the moniker Raise One to Right […]
Megachurch drama Greenleaf launches with a two-night premiere on OWN Tuesday, May 24 and Wednesday, May 25 at 10p, before settling into its regular Wednesday slot. The series from Craig Wright (Lost) and Lionsgate Television features the return to scripted television of Oprah Winfrey, also an exec producer.
Marilyn Manson has joined WGN America’s supernatural thriller Salem in a special guest starring role. The singer, who collaborated on the show’s opening title sequence, will play a barber/surgeon. Production on season three began Thursday in Shreveport, LA.